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line, which then lay past Newhouse Mire and Bagtor 

 Mire to Mill Wood and Burchanger ; the pack 

 then crossed the Bickington road to the Heytor 

 Hotel, leaving Ilsington Vicarage on the left, and 

 ran into the fox close to Narrowcombe House. 



The runs noted above do not by any means exhaust 

 those of exceptional excellence, but they suffice as 

 examples of such as rank as first-class. Many were 

 the good days, and many the fair days, which, after 

 all, go to make up the sum of a season's enjoyment. 



A unique and somewhat dramatic finish to a fast, 

 but twisting, run of forty minutes around Heytor, 

 Rippon Tor, Bagtor and Pinchaford, occurred on the 

 12th February, 1907. The fox eventually climbed to 

 the top of the southernmost of the two big rocks at 

 Heytor and was killed on its very summit. 



The presence of wild red deer in Buckland Woods 

 having again been reported in the year 1903, Mr. 

 Singer invited Mr. E. A. V. Stanley to bring the 

 Quantock Staghounds down to hunt them early in 

 April. Mr. Stanley stayed at Leighon with the 

 master, and the pack met on the 7th April at the 

 Heytor Hotel, Ilsington. One stag was roused in 

 Buckland but quickly vanished, and the rest of the 

 day was spent in the vain endeavour to find another. 



At this time the Moor Week, or South Devon Hunt 

 Week, which had come into vogue during Dr. Gaye's 

 mastership, was a flourishing institution at the end of 

 each season. It has fallen somewhat into desuetude 

 of recent years, but in Mr. Singer's time it was a very 

 enjoyable affair. Neighbouring packs, usually the 

 Dartmoor or the Mid-Devon, came by invitation to 

 make up, with the South Devon, a full week's hunting 

 on the moor. Sometimes a pack would come from 

 further afield. The Cattistock, under Mr. Chandos- 



